Fergal Byrne
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Host of a number of environmental and social innovation themed podcasts.
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Five Minute Macro
2 days ago
The US has never gone to war with a country where its President owns a golf course.
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Clayton Cubitt
30 days ago
The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
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Zoe Gardner
about 2 months ago
Thank GOD for Andrew Fisher!! FINALLY we get to hear about Spain on
#r4today
The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how? Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
about 2 months ago
My latest:
#COP30
, global climate politics, and what happens next — for
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Joanna Pocock
about 2 months ago
Thank you to NPR @npr for choosing GREYHOUND in its favourite books of 2025. Very grateful to Bridget Bentz for selecting my strange hybrid road trip of a book! “"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses."
#greyhound
#npr
#bookreviews
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Fiduciary responsibility, innit.
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London Review of Books
about 2 months ago
‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social
on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/brett-christophers/assume-the-worst
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Brett Christophers
2 months ago
A new piece for
@thenation.com
on everyone's favourite industry -- private equity; in conversation with one of the many new books on PE, by Megan Greenwell. Here:
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Can We Blame Private Equity for Everything?
Did PE firms make the world worse? Or was it something else?
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/private-equity-megal-greenwell/
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Bookwormlit
2 months ago
Still reading Greyhound by Joanna Pocock. I’m on page 239. Reading slowly…I don’t want to get to the end of the book. I love Greyhound. In 1981, at the age of 17, I rode on a Greyhound bus from Detroit to Los Angeles. It was an experience of a lifetime.
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Joanna Pocock
3 months ago
You heard it here, folks: 'Do not pass GO'. I am so very grateful for the readers who get in touch with their responses to reading GREYHOUND and their reminiscences of the road.... It's a book about the Greyhound bus, while also being about so many other things...
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Micah
3 months ago
this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025 "my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists" "your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs" solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too
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Christopher Webb
3 months ago
ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.
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Micah
3 months ago
they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work see you all there
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Great stuff! But a bird never flew on one wing. Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda -with sound accompaniement by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024.
www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...
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Yess!! But a bird never flew on one wing. 🙂 Another wonderful interview with Chris for the Sustainability Agenda with sound by Cat Byrne, Clapton edgelands (i), gathered in the Lea Valley, Clapton, London, during November 2024.
www.thesustainabilityagenda.com/podcast/epis...
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Rachel Salvidge
4 months ago
River abstraction has soared 76% over two decades, threatening rivers, ecosystems and future supply. Water companies fall back on extracting more from already stressed rivers 4/4
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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England’s rivers ‘under threat’ as water extraction surges to record levels
Exclusive: Investigation finds 76% rise in water taken from rivers and lakes for industrial or public consumption in two decades
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/20/england-rivers-water-extraction-record-levels
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angela hudson jones
4 months ago
@bookshop.org
is offering free shipping today and tomorrow might i suggest
@joannapocock.bsky.social
exquisite memoir
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Christopher Brown
4 months ago
The paperback edition of A Natural History of Empty Lots is out today from Timber Press
@hachetteus.bsky.social
! Thanks to all the readers who have picked up the hardcover and ebook over the past year (or listened to the audiobook) and spread the word 🙏📖💚
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Rosie Collington
4 months ago
At this point I am just a
@triofrancos.bsky.social
superfan & wanna recommend everything she’s doing but I particularly enjoyed this interview with
@jathansadowski.com
&
@edwardongwesojr.com
on all things extraction, stranded renewables assets, China, & much more 🫡
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425. The Oxymorons of Green Capitalism (ft. Thea Riofrancos)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4kfbjyFEyAWHGDSNQZiT0G?si=CHIAqYuHRu6qp7ITaDpahQ
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Felicity Hannah
4 months ago
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
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Christopher Brown
4 months ago
On November 5, I'll be teaching an online class for
@writersleaguetexas.bsky.social
on nature writing in the 21st century—as both genre in its own right and essential element for writers in any genre. It should be a lot of fun:
writersleague.org/calendar/wri...
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“Writing the Natural World: A 21st Century Reboot” with Christopher Brown
$59 for Members $119 for Non-Members For any writer in any genre, nature is a presence in the narrative, whether as the central focus or ambient background. Writing the natural world presents a tre…
https://writersleague.org/calendar/writing-the-natural-world-with-christopher-brown/
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Chuck Wendig
4 months ago
Very much liked this book —
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Joanna Pocock
4 months ago
This was a really fun conversation. Thank you
@liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social
🙏🙏🙏
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David Roberts
4 months ago
The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.
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Christopher Brown
4 months ago
When the armadillos are out foraging before sundown, it’s a sign cooler temps have arrived in Texas
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Grace Blakeley
4 months ago
The White House’s furious response to the decision by Norway’s SWF to divest from Caterpillar over its support for Israeli war crimes tells us something important: divestment works. And it works even more effectively in a democratic financial system.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/divestment...
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Divestment Works.
When finance is accountable to the people, elites get scared.
https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/divestment-works
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Chris Noto
5 months ago
Here's a stunning piece, "At Harper’s, Lewis Hyde on “The Geological Sublime” (long read on butterflies, deep time, and climate change)."
@christopherbrown.bsky.social
turned me on to it in his most recent newsletter.
fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/dogs-days-...
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Fred Kiesche 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰
5 months ago
Field Notes by Christopher Brown for August 24, 2025: Dog Days, Dog Stars and Flea Peppers.
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Dog days, dog stars and flea peppers
Plus: Empty Lots in paperback and a nature writing class. (No. 183)
https://open.substack.com/pub/edgelands/p/dogs-days-dog-stars-and-flea-peppers?r=8oi53&utm_medium=ios
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Michael Hobbes
5 months ago
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
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Zeteo
5 months ago
“The left needs to stop attacking the right as though they’re free market fundamentalists and recognize that they are charlatans who will sacrifice any ideological commitment to maintain their own wealth and power.”
@graceblakeley.substack.com
on why the right never really cared about free markets.
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Joanna Pocock
5 months ago
@orionmagazine.bsky.social
have printed a short extract from GREYHOUND (published by Soft Skull Press in the US and
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
in the UK). "Greyhound buses are part of an overlooked ecosystem. ... They are more library than shopping mall..."
#greyhound
#OrionMagazine
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Paul McAuley
5 months ago
Currently reading
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Christopher Brown
5 months ago
Field Notes from the end of August, with damaged woods, resilient birds, late capitalist brutalism, ancient wild edibles, paperback preorder giveaways, and a nature writing class coming this fall:
fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/dogs-days-...
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Dogs days, dog stars and flea peppers
Plus: Empty Lots in paperback and a nature writing class. (No. 183)
https://fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/dogs-days-dog-stars-and-flea-peppers
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Jonathan Coe
5 months ago
So now the argument is over which of the British political parties can deport people more efficiently. The Overton window has disappeared over the (rightward) horizon.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
7 months ago
A global minimum tax on the ultrarich could change planetary politics. Right now South Africa, Chile, France, and Spain are pushing for it
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Christopher Brown
7 months ago
Also in today’s mail—
@joannapocock.bsky.social
’s GREYHOUND, the best and most incisive, insightful and deeply felt literary road trip across the crazy USA I have read in a long while. Arriving August 12; preorder here from Soft Skull:
softskull.com/books/greyho...
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Joanna Pocock
7 months ago
Some of the best novels I've read recently: 'The Edge of the Alphabet' (Janet Frame), 'The Long Form' (Kate Briggs), 'Emergency' (Daisy Hildyard), 'Still Born' (Guadalupe Nettel) & 'The Empusium' (Olga Tokarczuk). All of them are now available in the
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
sale! 👇👇👇
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Peter Jukes
7 months ago
Notice how nobody talks about 'Christian' grooming gangs when discussing the long history of child sexual abuse in care homes and sports clubs. Funny that.
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7 months ago
Hello! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 has joined Bsky. We'll be sharing new articles and other journal-related updates. To start, excellent news: Our 2024 impact factor is up four points: 3.4. This reflects the high-quality work of our authors, reviewers, and editors—thank you, and keep them coming! 🙏
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LSE Blogs
7 months ago
How did
#AssetManagers
take over the world?
@graceblakeley.substack.com
exposes how mega-investment firms like
#BlackRock
control trillions of dollars and exert influence over markets, corporate policy and governments
@lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
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How asset managers like BlackRock took over the world - LSE Review of Books
BlackRock may not be as much of a household name as other mega-corporations, but its influence over global finance is staggering. In this extract from her book, Vulture Capitalism, Grace Blakeley expo...
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2025/06/16/how-asset-managers-like-blackrock-took-over-the-world-vulture-capitalism-extract-grace-blakeley/
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Grace Blakeley
7 months ago
Israel is a rogue state - don’t let it drag us into World War III
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JW Mason
7 months ago
Every single day.
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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃
8 months ago
Another morning when the current events are dire, but
@christopherbrown.bsky.social
's Field Notes are pure beauty. Not a subscriber? You're missing out on a lot of insightful discussions about our relationship with the natural world.
fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/subscribe
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Reports from the edgelands. Click to read Field Notes, by Christopher Brown, a Substack publication.
https://fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/subscribe
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Lee Ward
8 months ago
Books I Did Read 2025: In Ascension by Martin MacInnes. Wow this exists in that elusive intersection between literary fiction and hard(ish) sci-fi that I've only really found in Richard Powers or
@mjohnharrison.bsky.social
. Capsule review? Deep space, deep time, deep trauma, deep water(s).
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David Slack
8 months ago
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.
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The Associated Press
8 months ago
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.
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Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say
An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
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